Titel en schrijver
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Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality, Alexander Besher |
ISBN nr.
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9781857233322 |
Uitgeverij, drukjaar en drukversie
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Orbit, 1995 |
Paperback of hardcover
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Paperback |
Aantal pagina’s
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357 |
Taal en categorie
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Engels, Fantasy & Sciencefiction |
Korte samenvatting
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It’s 2027. Tokyo has survived the Mega-Quake of the Millennium and Satori Corporation, the owner of a virtual reality entertainment empire, is embroiled in cut-throat corporate warfare to preserve its market share and, incidentally, save the lives of thousands of users trapped inside its virtual worlds. All of this seems far away to Professor Frank Gobi as he strolls across the placid Berkley, California, campus – until he gets home to find his perpetually on-line ten-year-old son stuck inside Satori’s virtual Gametime and literally fighting for his life. |
Over de auteur
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Alexander Besher (born in China in 1951) is an author of fiction and non-fiction. In addition to novels, screenplays and teleplays, he is a journalist, consulting futurist on Pacific Rim affairs (for the San Francisco-based Global Business Network, the corporate future scenarios think-tank) and former editor of Chicago Review. |
Recensies
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A savage corporate war results in the crash of the world’s largest recreational virtual reality environment, stranding thousands of users in neural limbo. Dr. Frank Gobi, an experimenter on the fringe of psychic downloading, races against time to track down a rogue CEO and restore the system before the minds of those trapped inside are lost beyond recall. The author of The Pacific Rim Almanac (LJ 6/1/91) has envisioned a 21st century that will be born from the pairing of technological advances with Eastern mysticism. Sparkling prose, inventive plotting, and an engagingly self-deprecatory hero combine to produce a compelling sf thriller of the next century. A strong addition to sf collections. |
Beschadigingen
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